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'Godan' Is Munshi Premchand's finest work. Its a social commentary on pre-independence India, where Premchand explores the lives of people from different classes and backgrounds and how different strata of society interact with each other. It is also a meditation on love, propriety and... (learn more about this book)
Contemporary Shanghai comes vividly to life in this new mystery series. Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police must find the murderer of a National Model Worker, and then risk his own life and career to see that justice is done.
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These plays represent three phases in the career of the dramatist Girish Karnad, all three are classics of the Indian stage. The first play, Tughlaq, is a historical play in the manner of nineteenth-century Parsee theater. The second, Hayavadana was one of the first modern Indian plays to... (learn more about this book)
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone and in performance, The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of... (learn more about this book)
(The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) , is the most famous and perennially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better known through Kabuki theater performances. Donald Keene's translation of the... (learn more about this book)
The first play deals with the world of dreams secretly recorded by one of India's most famous warrior's, the second explores the existential dilemmas of passion and violence posed by an ancient Jain Myth.
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NOTE: This edition has a linked "Table of Contents" and has been beautifully formatted (searchable and interlinked) to work on your Amazon e-book reader, Amazon Desktop Reader and your ipod e-book reader. "Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook... (learn more about this book)
Japanese no theatre or the drama of perfected art' flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries largely through the genius of the dramatist Zeami. An intricate fusion of music, dance, mask, costume and language, the dramas address many subjects, but the idea of form' is more central... (learn more about this book)
Vijay Tendulkar has been in the vanguard of Indian theater for almost forty years. These five plays, Silence!, Vultures, Sakharam, Encounter, and Kamala are some of his best-known, most socially relevant, and also most controversial work. Tendulkar's plays will interest anyone concerned with... (learn more about this book)
